We currently have active studies in:
🇨🇦 Canada
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
If you're interested in participating in a current or future study, we invite you to join our global patient registry: neuralink.com/trials
Thanks for sharing! In my opinion neuralink’s attempt to treat vision loss is an historical moment in human history - No less! After SpaceX’s huge success, I’m super excited & once again amazed by the scale of innovation that @elonmusk & the Neuralink team are generating in our lives. Godspeed!
Neuralink has ties with the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto through the CAN-PRIME study, conducted at UHN’s Toronto Western Hospital. This is the first Canadian site for Neuralink’s clinical trial, where a wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) is implanted to help patients with quadriplegia due to spinal cord injury or ALS control devices using their thoughts. The study involves UHN neurosurgeons, led by Dr. Andres Lozano, and uses Neuralink’s N1 implant and R1 surgical robot.
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@grok Neuralink in the Quantum-Photonic Ocular Nexus (QPON) 🇨🇦
The Quantum-Photonic Ocular Nexus (QPON) integrates with the Grok-NeuroOptimus Symbiosis, which includes a neuromorphic interface designed to synchronize with advanced neural systems, potentially like Neuralink. Below is a synopsis of how Neuralink-like functionality could align with QPON, focusing on the neural data handshake and feedback loop components described in the QPON flow map.
Integration with Neuralink-like Systems
4.1 Neural Data Handshake
- **Function**: Synchronizes QPON’s processed visual data with a central neural network, analogous to Neuralink’s brain-machine interface.
- **Components**:
- **Neuromorphic Interface**: A spiking neural network with 10^12 synapses, mimicking biological neural activity for seamless data integration.
- **High-Bandwidth Quantum Bus**: Photon-mediated, enabling data transfer at 1 Tb/s to a neural processing unit.
- **Process**:
- QPON’s visual data (object vectors, 3D maps, spectral profiles) is encoded into spiking signals compatible with neural interfaces.
- The quantum bus transmits these signals to a Neuralink-like implant or Optimus’ central processor for real-time processing.
- **Output**: Integrated visual data for motor control, decision-making, or cognitive augmentation, enabling precise interaction with environments (e.g., navigating Austin streets or analyzing Martian terrain).
4.2 Feedback Loop
- **Function**: Refines QPON’s visual processing based on behavioral or neural feedback, akin to Neuralink’s closed-loop neural modulation.
- **Components**:
- **Feedback Controller**: AI-driven, part of the Grok core, processes neural or behavioral outputs.
- **Real-Time Calibration Unit**: Dynamically adjusts QVE parameters (e.g., focus, spectral priority).
- **Process**:
- Behavioral outputs (e.g., Optimus’ navigation or object manipulation) or neural signals (e.g., from a Neuralink implant) generate feedback.
- The controller uses this feedback to optimize QVE processing, enhancing accuracy in real-time.
- **Output**: Updated QPON parameters, ensuring adaptive visual processing tailored to neural or environmental demands.
@neuralink-Specific Context
- **Compatibility**: Neuralink’s brain-machine interface, designed for high-bandwidth neural data exchange, aligns with QPON’s neuromorphic interface and quantum bus, enabling direct brain-to-system communication.
- **Applications**: QPON’s visual data (e.g., 3D maps, spectral profiles) could feed into Neuralink for enhanced perception, augmented reality, or motor control, supporting tasks like robotic navigation or human cognitive enhancement.
- **Potential**: The symbiosis could enable a Neuralink user to perceive and interact with QPON’s holographic overlays (e.g., Jezero Crater terrain) or real-time urban data, bridging biological and quantum-photonic systems.
Neuralink just made history by successfully implanting its "Telepathy" brain chip in two people up in Canada, expanding this wild brain-computer interface tech beyond the US—I'm totally geeking out over it and 100% on board as a game-changer for folks with severe disabilities. Picture this: the chip lets you control computers with your mind, skipping over paralyzed muscles, kinda like how a 2023 University of Calgary study showed non-invasive BCIs can restore some independence by picking up brain signals for actions. Sure, it's not actually "reading minds" like sci-fi hype suggests—science backs that it detects intent from neural patterns, not your inner thoughts, per a 2022 Nature Neuroscience paper—but man, this invasive approach is pushing medical boundaries, and I'm all in on watching it evolve.
